Banlieue Triste

Hangman's Chair

£9.99

Release Date 28 September 2018

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Product code

SPINE769550

Format

CD Album

Label

Spinefarm Records UK

Since their emergence in 2005, continuing a journey started by hardcore outfit Es La Guerilla, Paris doomsters Hangman’s Chair have existed in the light of streetlamps; however, these lamps have not served to illuminate the blackness of night, only highlight it. On fifth album ‘Banlieue Triste’ this is written everywhere, from the title (‘Sad Suburb’) and the caravan on its sleeve, to the suffocating bleakness of the band’s melodic, doomy metal. For all these dark reference points, however, there is also a powerful catharsis in ‘Banlieue Triste’ that comes from its creators’ honest and emotional openness, and with such a unique strain of doom to call their own, all of it housed in signature, stylish artwork not typical of the scene, many will find themselves turning to the dark side when they hear what Hangman’s Chair have to offer…